CARING - Child Related Stress and Coping

Dyadic coping is a concept from couple research that describes how partners jointly deal with stress and provide mutual support when facing strain. It has been established as an important predictor of individual and relationship outcomes, but it has also proven to be relevant for the broader family context, particularly in the context of parenthood. Child-related stressors that are situated within the immediate family system represent a specific form of parental strain that can affect both the parents’ partnership and the entire family system. The central aim of the study is to examine the extent to which parental dyadic stress-coping competencies transfer to child-related stressors and whether these competencies can be adequately captured using existing coding systems.